10 Best Places to Retire in Mississippi

8. Amite County

Cost of living: 22.5% lower than US average
Crime Score: 36
Physicians per 100k: 31
Median House Value: $68,900
Insider Monkey score: 53.6

The county was developed primarily as an area where cotton could be grown, which benefitted the plantation owners during the cotton boom. This resulted in most of the population during this time to be African American. By the 1900’s, the majority of the residents were still African Americans, but due to the mechanization of agriculture, most of them migrated first to the North, then to the East during the Great Migration.